“GENIUS ACRE.”
A' message to tho “New York Herald,” edit ion, says 11ta f the League foi’ i'ostc'i'in-r Genius has announced that it will purchase an acre of ground - in a eonietfi'y of Now York, ill which will be interred the. bodies oi a selected group of men and women of extraordinary' mental achievement. I he organisation already has. published a long hst of names of those who have been invited to choose tlx* “genius acre” as their burying-plaee. Oenins and riches, says the League, do not always go together, and consequently a burial-ground sueb as is being arranged will be of great value. Genius, though penniless, will henceforth be afforded' a tilt ing honour at death.
The man who over 22 years ago made a railway speed record which, in spite of the wonderful new engines now on the steel roads of the world, has never been equalled nr beaten, is about to retire after over 48 years’ railway service. He is Mr George Henry Flowellon. M.8.E., of Swindon (Eng. 1. wbo retires under the ago limit as a head office locomotive running inspector from the Great Western Bailway, which he joined in 1878 as an engine cleaner. He set up his speed record in May, 1904, when he ran a competitive mail train against an engine from Plymouth to Paddington. “We attained a speed of 102.2 miles an hour, and that record has never since been reached, much less beaten, by any engine anywhere in the world,” Mr Flewellin said.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3352, 20 December 1926, Page 7
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